School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)
- Location:
- Baile an Bhile, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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- Saint Stephen's Day falls in the twenty sixth of December.
On that day all the young boys put on old clothes and falsefaces and go about gathering money.
Long ago they used to catch a wren the night before Saint Stephen's Day and put old clothes on themselves and tie straw ropes around their feet and knees and be asking money to bury the wren. This is the way they asked it:-The wren the wren, the king of all birds
Saint Stephen's Day was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Delia Finn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Na Broicíní, Co. Mhaigh Eo